HUNGATE, William Leonard, a Representative from Missouri; born in Benton, Franklin County,
Ill., December 14, 1922; graduated from Bowling Green High School, Bowling
Green, Mo., 1929; attended the public schools, Central Methodist College,
Fayette, Mo. and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mich.; A.B., University
of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 1943; LL.B., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.,
1948; J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1969; United States Army,
1943-1946; received Combat Infantry Badge and Bronze Star; was admitted to the
bar in 1948; lawyer, private practice; prosecuting attorney of Lincoln County,
Mo, 1951-1956; special assistant attorney general, 1958-1964; elected
simultaneously as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the Eighty-ninth
Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United
States Representative Clarence Cannon, and reelected to the five succeeding
Congresses (November 3, 1964-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for
reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976; professor, University of
Missouri, St. Louis, Mo., 1977-1979; justice, United States district judge for
the eastern district of Missouri, 1979-1992; president, American Bar
Associations National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, 1985-1986; died on
June 22, 2007, St. Louis County, Mo.